> Last summer I went to the LLL International breastfeeding Conference in
> Orlando and heard Dr Marshall Klaus speak, "Perinatal Care in the 21st
> Century:  evidence that supports changing the management for both mother
and
> infant."  I took some notes and it says in my notes do not wash hands of
> baby--baby will not suckle.  These were notes I had in the continuing ed
> syllabus.  On page 23 of that syllabus Klaus writes, "In order not to
remove
> the taste ans smell of the mother's amniotic fluid, it is necessary to
delay
> washing the baby's hands.  The baby uses the taste and smell of the
amniotic
> fluid on his hands to make a connection with a certain oily substance on
the
> nipple related to the amniotic fluid."


Very interesting!!

Please forgive me my ignorance and lack of expereince... I've never been at
a birth (except my own ones)...  I've seen two video's that showed
self-attachment rigth after birth. And I noticed that both babies used
their hands for orientation. First they put their hands in their mouths ,
then they reached for the aureola, and grasped it. And suprisingly after
they grasped the nipple, they moved to the opposite breast and latched on
to that one. It looked to me, as if they used the aureola for orientation
in looking for the other one.


groet,

Annelies Bon
contactpersoon vereniging Borstvoeding Natuurlijk
breastfeeding resources: http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/abon/bfbronnen.htm

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